PAGE ONE.
1.1: RICK TYLER and his partner MATTHEW TYLER, the android Hourman, step out
of their beater police car into a deserted Grain silos plant on the edge of the
docks in HAPPY HARBOR. They’re walking towards a crime scene.
What I mean by mill-worker’s dock is
similar to what is a deserted part of downtown Buffalo—here’s what I mean.
It’s mostly a tourist spot for geo-cachers
and is almost always deserted. In the far bottom corner of the panel there is a
taped off-area.
1. CAPTION [TIME/LOCATION]: Happy Harbor, NY. 08:32am.
1.2: RICK and
TYLER step through the police tape and regard the body of a young woman.
There’s a PATROL OFFICER next to the Android Tyler, scratching the back of her
head.
2. OFFICER: Third
one in as many days. With the same tag--
1.3: The officer
points up towards the cement wall of a grain silo right next to the crime
scene. Rick is in the panel making an uncomfortable face. I think we should
have the Hourmen in plain-clothes. Android Tyler is more formal—in a suit, and
Rick is the less-straight guy, the sarcastic, constantly hungover, perhaps
substance-abusing sidekick.
3. DISPLAY LETT [Graffiti]: Time is running out, Hourmen.
1.4: Android Tyler
crouches down to look at the body. He’s scanning it.
4. TYLER: Perished
little more than an hour ago; strangled. Name is Bethany Navarro. 22 White Oak
Lane. DOB: 9.19.85.
1.5: Android Tyler
looks up at Rick who checks his watch. It’s a funky large format watch, think
of a slightly souped-up Apple Watch but this one injects Miraclo into his veins
and gives Rick his hour of power. Rick’s tapped it and it displays the time as
07:22am in digital format.
5. RICK: Scumbag
is killing morning joggers.
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